Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Since I've joined LoveFilm, I've been on an 80's bender, picking up movies from my childhood that I wouldn't have seen because I was still in nappies. This theme continues [films, not me wearing nappies] to watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High starring a young and very stoned Sean Penn along with brat pack staple Judge Reinhold and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh alongside a very tall, lean Forest Whitaker.



The film revolves around their antics as young teenagers dating and discovering sex for the first time and also the woes of life in general i.e. working crappy jobs in fast-food outlets and getting fired by your boss or just quitting because you don't want The Man putting you down.

Although the film is dated, it's still highly watchable as well as mostly forgettable but as coming-of-age teenage 80's comedies go, it's right up there with other movies of the genre.

I would give this film 3 childhood memories out of 5.